% A simple two-column LaTeX style for Occidental College's CS senior projects. % Based on latex8.sty by Paolo.Ienne@di.epfl.ch \usepackage{times} % use Times as the default font % define bold 11pt Times font for second-order headings \font\elvbf = ptmb scaled 1100 \usepackage[style=numeric,sorting=nyt]{biblatex} % format the bibliography nicely \usepackage{xpatch} % used to patch \textcite % change \textcite to do family-name (year) \xpatchbibmacro{textcite} {\printnames{labelname}} {\printnames{labelname} (\printfield{year})} {} {} % sort bibliography by last name \DeclareNameAlias{default}{family-given} \usepackage{amsfonts} % provides many math symbols/fonts \usepackage{amsmath} % provides many math environments \usepackage{amssymb} % provides many math symbols/fonts \usepackage{caption} % fixes caption spacing issues \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} % allows for colored text \usepackage{enumitem} % allows adjustment of list spacing \usepackage{graphicx} % allows insertion of graphics \usepackage{hyperref} % creates links within the page and to URLs \usepackage{listings} % provides the lstlisting environment \usepackage{url} % formats URLs properly \usepackage{verbatim} % provides the comment environment % set dimensions of columns, gap between columns, and paragraph indent \setlength{\textheight}{8.875in} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.875in} \setlength{\columnsep}{0.3125in} \setlength{\topmargin}{0in} \setlength{\headheight}{0in} \setlength{\headsep}{0in} \setlength{\parindent}{1em} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-.304in} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-.304in} % remove the space between list items \setlist{noitemsep} % style code listings \lstset{ basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize, breaklines=true, showstringspaces=false } % style the title \def\@maketitle{ \newpage \begin{center} {\Large \bf \@title \par} % add two empty lines at the end of the title \vspace*{2\baselineskip} { \large \begin{tabular}[t]{c} \@author \end{tabular} \par } % add small space at the end of the author name \vspace*{.5em} { \ifx \@empty \@email \else \texttt{\@email} \par \vspace*{.25em} \fi \ifx \@empty \@affiliation \else \@affiliation \fi } % add empty line at the end of the title block \vspace*{\baselineskip} \end{center} } % style the abstract \def\abstract{% \centerline{\large\bf Abstract}% \vspace*{\baselineskip}% } % define email and affiliation \def\email#1{\gdef\@email{#1}} \gdef\@email{} \def\affiliation#1{\gdef\@affiliation{#1}} \gdef\@affiliation{} % correct heading spacing and type \def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@} {14pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{14pt plus 2pt minus 2pt} {\large\bf}} \def\subsection{\@startsection {subsection}{2}{\z@} {13pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{13pt plus 2pt minus 2pt} {\elvbf}}